August 22, 2013 – Dr. Lina Nilsson, former bioengineering postdoc in Professor Dan Fletcher’s lab, has been named one of this year’s 35 Innovators Under 35 by the MIT Technology Review.
Kassianidou wins HHMI Fellowship
August 14, 2013 – BioE graduate student Elena Kassianidou has been awarded an International Predoctoral Fellowship from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).
Capstone team wins NIH Honorable Mention
August 12, 2013 – A team of students in the Fall 2012 Bioengineering Senior Capstone Design course have received an Honorable Mention in the NIH 2013 Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) Challenge competition.
Natividad-Diaz wins 2nd for Innovation in Primary Healthcare
July 12, 2013 – Bioengineering Ph.D. student Sylvia Natividad-Diaz has won second place in the Prize for Primary Healthcare, a CIMIT – Ambulatory Practice of the Future competition.
Seung-Wuk Lee gets R&D 100
July 8, 2013 – Bioengineering professor Seung-Wuk Lee was honored with a 2013 R&D 100 Award for his development of an engineered virus which generates electricity.
Jay Keasling talks biofuels on NPR
June 28, 2013 – Jay Keasling, professor of bioengineering and chemical & biomolecular engineering and CEO of the Joing BioEnergy Institute, talked about the future of biofuels on National Public Radio. Listen to the broadcast or read the story at NPR.
Read the Summer 2013 BioE Graduate Newsletter
June 28, 2013 – The Summer 2013 newsletter of the UC Berkeley – UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering is out! Read up on our students faculty and alumni at the Graduate Program website.
Arkin challenges key tenet of microbiology
June 19, 2013 – Bioengineering professor Adam Arkin and collaborators have new findings which suggest that bacteria in the laboratory show little adaptive gene regulation in response to their environment.
Undergrad capstone team designs surgical innovation
June 18, 2013 – A team of BioE undergraduates from Professor Amy Herr’s capstone design course (BioE 192) have developed an innovative technology to improve laparoscopic surgery.